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there is nothing we can't do. >> martha: no doubt the president happy to see out of washington for a few hours today. taking that game tonight, that's our story tonight, we will see you tomorrow night, tucker carlson is up next. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." at white house senior policy advisor stephen miller is on the set tonight. he was at camp david over the weekend as the president and several top congressional republicans hashed out their priorities on immigration and welfare reform. miller then appeared on cnn yesterday to discuss all of this, but the conversation quickly went off the rails over michael wolff's new book. cnn pulled the plug on the interview. >> the reason why i want to talk about the president's experience is what i've seen with him traveling to meet thousands of foreign leaders with his incredible work. >> you are not answering the
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question. >> you have 24 hours a day of intime trump material. you will not give 3 minutes -- >> i get it. there's one viewer that you care about right now and you're being obsequious, being a factotum in order to please him. i think i've wasted enough of my viewers time. thank you. as republican lawmakers call for jeff sessions to resign -- >> tucker: that got pretty intense and it continued during the commercial break. we know that because someone in cnn leaked a transcript of miller's post-interview remarks. if they were apparently on tape, all done in an effort to embarrass him. stephen miller joins us tonight. thanks a lot for coming on. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: cnn called around to news organizations and said you were extorted off the set by security. presumably you are not a physical fight, you are not armed. if they thought you were a threat. do you think if you have been, i don't know, a member of ms-13 here illegally, that cnn would have had security pull you off the set? >> i would assume if i were a
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member they would be clamoring to get me into the voting booth. i think that like many things cnn says, the story has the most important virtue of all cnn stories as being not true. >> tucker: here's what we know is true, what is striking to me about the whole thing. there was a video apparently taken without your knowledge of you on the set after the segment ended during the commercial break, and someone apparently from cnn, i don't know who else would have access to it, leaked that to other news organizations. what do you make of that? >> it's just another example of cnn's very low journalistic standards. i was glad to have people here what i set on camera and off camera. cnn has been extraordinarily biased, extraordinarily unfair to the president and is not giving their viewers honest information. >> tucker: so he wanted to talk about immigration. the daca debate is obviously the focus of a lot of energy in the congress right now. the priorities for the
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administration you have said our ending chain migration, financing a border wall and ending the diversity lottery. of those three, what would you say is the most important priority from your point of view? >> look, we need them all because the reality is that anything you do on daca it will have predictable consequences. you will have an increase in illegal immigration so you will need to have a wall. an increase in the overall number of people coming into the country and have to deal with chain migration. if the deal with the visa lottery. if these are crucial reforms to make the system work for america. donald trump has a very radical idea and that is when we make changes to the immigration laws, the group we should be most concerned about his everyday hardworking americans, the citizens who make this hard on my country run. who pay their taxes, show up and vote. the people were loyal to this country and donald trump is saying our country should be loyal to them in return. >> tucker: democrats argue back that ending chain migration and ending the diversity lottery would prevent a lot of people --
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decent people from coming into the country. what is their argument against financing the border wall? why do you think they oppose that? >> as you know, they all voted for a border barrier, a hard physical border barrier back in 2006. joe biden voted for it, barack obama voted for it. hillary clinton voted for, et cetera. a new position they apparently have that they are opposed to any form -- >> tucker: what animated it? why is that an absolute sticking point for democrats? a bunch of them have said, including in leadership, we are not supporting anything that includes financing the border wall, why? >> if democrats oppose a border while they are just saying they want continued unendingly illegal immigration. chain migration could keep good people out. at their 7 billion people in the world. most of them are good, hardworking, decent, honest, principled people. the reality is there's a limit to number of people they can bring in. we have a right to say we want to bring people and based on their ability to contribute to
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the economy, to stay productive citizens and to uplift the nation as a whole. you think about our current system of chain migration. over the last ten years we've admitted about 10 million people through our chain migration system. to understand how many people that is, you're talking about every hour that's about the size of a high school auditorium. every day it's the size of a large high school. every week a small city. every month the medium to average size city. every year a very large city, a city the size of washington, d.c., or san francisco. every single you're just there chain migration. what is the effective out on taxpayers? what is the upper left effect of that on wage earners? >> tucker: and that's illegal. >> that's just folks coming in on green cards through chain migration. >> tucker: i always ask this question of proponents of immigration, including of illegal immigration. what is the ideal number of immigrants, people from other countries, moving her every year? >> oftentimes they will have an answer to that question. >> tucker: what's your answer? >> i have my own views on it, but i think the important point
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is ending chain migration that the president has called for is necessary not just for economic security but for national security. if you recent attempted terrorit attack in new york. brought to the chain migration system. they came through her nephew's green card. if that's just not a smart way for a country to run its immigration system. >> tucker: what should be the criteria for entry? >> donald trump is looked at things like what is your proficiency in the language? what economic skills do you have? do have a background in sciences? to have a background in engineering? you have a background in law or writing? looked at things like your age. obviously you bring in immigrants who are in their 80s or 90s, that will have a significant expense on society, so you want folks primarily in their working years. >> tucker: we interviewed someone last week and said who will pick the strawberries? how many immigrants, low-wage, low skilled immigrants do we need a year for the agriculture sector? >> as you know, only about 1% of
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the immigrant population of the country works in agriculture. it's discussed a lot but it's a very small portion of the overall labor force. the typical jobs at a lower skilled immigration nomadic immigrant rights you might be construction work, it might be hospitality work, restaurant work, it might be not working at all and just going onto the welfare system if there isn't a job for that individual. >> tucker: if there's no clear economic rationale for an immigration system and it doesn't sound like there is one, there's no economists saying we need to bring in this number of low skilled immigrants, then why does the democratic party support our current system and want to liberalize the current system so vehemently? what motivates them? >> you are asking the right question but i think the context of this debate, the question that the president is putting forth for the american people is when we have an immigration system, whose needs are we fundamentally trying to serve? the needs of special interests? the needs of politicians, they
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needs of foreign countries and foreign nationals and the needs of our own country and our own workers? at the end of the day our hope for a bipartisan deal was you have enough democrats say that listening to the voters in the voice of the american people saying we want to serve the american people first. what donald trump has done for the so exceptional as for the first time that i can remember ember, the first time you can probably remember. we have a president of this country who when he talks but immigration, he talks about what is right for the everyday hardworking person. >> tucker: we are almost out of time so i just want to get to one quick political question, which is democrats have said they are not going to come to any deal with these three components in it. it border wall, reducing chain migration, ending diversity lottery. it where is the wiggle room on the white house side? >> democrats ultimately have to make a choice. they care a lot about illegal immigrants. we are seeing if you want to make a deal then you have to both deliver benefits for the american people and taxpayers too. if they are a able to agree on
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those terms that we can have a deal. an immigration system that ten, 20, 30 years from now produces more assimilation, higher wages, more economic opportunity and better prospect for immigrants and u.s.-born alike. >> tucker: stephen miller, thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: negotiations over daca are ongoing. at the stakes are high. how high are they politically? one progressive group, maybe one of the biggest is now admitting that amnesty for illegal immigrants is central to the democratic party's political future. at the center for american progress action fund recently sent out a letter debating the democratic party stand up to republicans in the white house to defend daca. we will get to the debate in just a minute. this is the president live on a football field in atlanta. we will listen into the national anthem.
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♪ o say, can you see, ♪ by the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming ♪ ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ ♪ through the perilous fight ♪ o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming ♪ ♪ and the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ♪ ♪ o say, does that star spangled
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banner yet wave ♪ ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪ ♪ and the home of the brave [cheers and applause] >> tucker: president of the united states on the field with the national championship in atlanta, georgia, . that was, needless to say, the national anthem. standing for it. all right, we will get back to our interview on the question of daca.
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henry fernandez is a fellow at the center for american progress. at one of the biggest progressive groups in washingto washington. the action from sister organization. joins us tonight. thanks for coming on. >> thank so much for having me, tucker. >> tucker: you all sent out a fund-raising pitch recently, just the other day, trying to rally democrats to stiffen the backbone of democrats in the congress to resist any kind of concessions on daca. and it was this line, which jumped out, it's something we've been saying on the show but i've never heard anybody admit it out loud. the fight to protect dreamers is not only a moral imperative, it is also a critical component of the democratic party's future electoral success. we set a couple of times that the democratic party has basically given up on the middle class in favor of importing new voters and we are denounced as all right for saying that. you were honest enough to admit it in a fund-raising pitch and i just want to thank you for that and for clarifying the terms of the debate.
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>> obviously we don't look at it the way you do. what we are making clear is that there is a tremendous amount of support for fixing the daca problem at president trump created for a clean dream act. tremendous auto support, your fox news polling says that over 80% of americans support making sure that we fix the problem that was created by president trump with regards to daca and make sure that these young people can stay here in the u.s. when 80% of americans support something, it makes a lot of sense for elected officials of all parties to stand with the american people. >> tucker: right, but that's actually not what the numbers show. if you break it out into the terms that are actually under debate, chain migration for example, that has very little support from voters. most voters don't think you ought to be able to come here illegally, get amnesty and then bring her relatives.
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most voters think we let into many immigrants of all kinds under all programs. they are not the diversity lottery, these are all things the democrats support. so actually on the specifics, the democrats are on the other side of public opinion, as you know. >> actually the polls, at least the foxhole, which i'm going to assume you think is reliable, says very clearly that what we are talking about here, what is up for debate in the congress, what was actually stopped by president trump, was daca and so we need a clean dream act. that's incredibly popular. the other issues that you are raising are not actually up for debate other than that president trump has put them on the table. >> tucker: you will concede that most americans don't think we ought to come here illegally and bring her relatives with you. they don't. >> i would concede that if you concoct a pole that uses
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language like you just used, you could probably get americans to agree to many things, but if you look at polling from legitimate -- legitimate pollig organizations that clarify for voters specifically, in fact, what we are talking about here, which is that family members, u.s. citizens, should be able to petition for their family members to get visas to come to the united states. that's pretty darn popular. >> tucker: so you think that most people would support giving amnesty a path to citizenship for people here illegally, including the dreamers, and then say yes, it's okay to bring her relatives here. i just don't think there's any evidence that that's true. if let me ask you the economic question. the dreamers are far less educated than a random sample of american citizens. it less likely to graduate from high school, less likely to graduate from college. far less likely to be able to read and write english.
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>> that's not true. >> tucker: actually it is true. >> to be eligible for daca, you have to have graduated from high school. 88% of americans have graduated from high school. to be eligible for daca you have to have graduated from high school or be in high school, so that's 100%. >> tucker: or the equivalent. >> when we count americans who have graduated from high school, we include those people who have a ged. we are comparing apples to apples. >> tucker: if not actually the same. this is the migration policy, daca holders are somewhat less educated of the u.s. population of similar ages. far less likely to completed college. >> when you completed -- when you look at college graduation, you are right. >> tucker: i know i'm right. >> let's understand exactly why that is. that's because those college
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students -- i don't mean to interrupt, it's your show, but i want to answer your question. >> tucker: and i want to hear your answer. >> okay. the answer is that those young people are often not eligible to get things like in-state tuition, or afford scholarships to college. if they are able to get green cards and then process to citizenship, like other immigrants, they will get -- >> tucker: if they get more benefits -- >> not benefits. >> tucker: yes they are benefits. i'm sorry, these are people who aren't u.s. citizens, they are not here illegally and you are saying with a straight face that we have some moral and economic obligation -- i don't believe that has popular support, but perhaps i'm wrong. >> i would again point only to the poll from your own network which led 82% of americans supported. >> tucker: right! [laughs] actual science. i hear that every night.
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mr. fernandes, thank you. >> thank you, have a good night, tucker. >> tucker: oprah winfrey's golden globe speech has everyone speculating about a possible presidential run and for some reason everybody seems very excited about it. try to figure that out next. ♪ nick was born to move. 3 toddlers won't stop him. and neither will lower back pain. because at a dr. scholl's kiosk he got a recommendation for our custom fit orthotic to relieve his foot, knee, or lower back pain, from being on his feet. dr. scholl's. born to move. they cahow many of 'em?e, sir! we don't know. dozens. all right! let's teach these freaks some manners! good luck out there, captain! thanks! but i don't need luck, i have skills...
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♪ >> tucker: the current president is the first person to jump straight from television to the presidency. he may not be the last. when i met last night during the golden globes. there was a heavy focus on sexual assault and harassment. hundreds of actors quietly enabled that behavior for years
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of course, but last night they collectively vowed to stop it. the biggest star was oprah winfrey, harvey weinstein's old friend, who won a standing ovation with this. >> i want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon! [cheers and applause] and when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, , and some pretty phenomenal men fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say to me also again.
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>> tucker: if you didn't weep us artist tom hanks did you are just not human. the speech didn't just when oprah applause. many people predictably or talk about oprah running for president this morning because there are 24 hours to fill in cable news. that speculation was fueled by reports on monday that oprah is seriously considering a run. jennifer rubin, who posed as a conservative over "the washington post" we did oprah-yates 2020! bill kristol, tweeted #i'mwithher. joy read suggested oprah is already the president at least in spirit. "switch back to the golden globes to watch oprah get her award. never let it be said that i don't respect the president of the united states. spiritually of course. wendy joins us tonight. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: a moment of seriousness now. oprah is very talented. one of the great communicators obviously. if she ran in the democratic primary she would win.
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it's all daytime tv viewers voting in that primer and she would win. how would you feel if you are senator gillibrand or one of the people who spent years kind of preparing for this, planning to run in the primary, getting blown out by oprah? >> i guess the way marco rubio or jeb bush felt or ted cruz felt when trump blew them out. this is not something for us to look at as a vacuum, so to speak. oprah winfrey is very talented. she brings people together. she is not divisive. she makes people feel warm inside and right now our country is very divided. what she did last night when she healed us, she brought us all together and that is what is needed. >> tucker: hold on, how did she healed us? >> she healed us because she spoke to issues that a lot of people are facing. whether you are a woman, she was intertwining racial division. she talked about not just women coming together, but women and men coming together. that's what we need in a leader. >> tucker: women and men come
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together kind of naturally and have for biological reasons for quite a while now. >> absolutely. but we have seen with the #metoo movement is women standing up and saying what is happening to us whether we are working in hollywood or politics is not good. but we need to have men who are also saying the same things rated oprah made a call to arms to say everyone needs to come together. >> tucker: c weren't bothered by the pictures of her kissing harvey weinstein or anything like that? that didn't seem a little weird? >> there's a lot of people who were kissing harvey weinstein. even our own president right now has been accused of sexual harassment. >> tucker: it's one thing to go from kissing harvey weinstein to being the face of #metoo. should there be an intermediate step where you say sorry i kissed harvey weinstein? >> let's talk about the intermediate step. the intermediate step is a 1990 oprah actually passed a bill that made sure that people who abuse children were registered. >> it's named after her. at the national child protection acts in 1990.
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she has a history of doing things -- >> tucker: of being in the congress in passing legislation and now she's healing? >> she has a history of moving things forward by using her platform and that's what we need. we need a leader who uses their platform to do things that are positive. that's what donald trump does not do and that's what oprah has done for countless years. and in 1990 donald trump even said if he had a vp it would be oprah winfrey. >> tucker: for sure. i wonder if it's being a universally beloved daytime talk show host and talking about whatever she talks about, it's a little different from being a politician, right? wouldn't she become slightly less beloved, it may be slightly more she were to weigh in on some of the thorny issues of the day? >> maybe she could. look at donald trump. he has become more divisive. the difference is that with oprah winfrey, she stuck to the script, she stuck to healing, she stuck to making sure our nation is coming together. she did not say one side is better than the other. it was really important here
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with oprah winfrey -- >> tucker: i can't tell if you're being so serious right now. >> and being so honest. >> tucker: healing thing, you felt that? >> you didn't have a tearjerker moment? >> tucker: i wept like a child. it does it give you any pause that bill kristol took time out from advocating for an iran invasion support oprah? you think this is not the oprah i know, the one who gets support from bill kristol? >> it's not that. for me i felt that 2018 is off to a good start when we saw someone who was rallying the country in a positive way. whether that's oprah winfrey and bill kristol decides to jump on that bandwagon, that's great. it's good that we are coming together. >> tucker: you are not really describing a politician, you are describing a religious figure. she heals people, she passes legislation without even being in congress. she brings men and women together. >> she uses her platform for good, that is what a leader doe
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does. >> tucker: i have snarky remarks, but i'm going to keep them to myself. >> we can criticize her but we have to give her her kudos and that is that she uses her platform effectively. >> tucker: i will need to go to confession if i even think an unkind thought about oprah winfrey at this point. can we use her last name? >> yes. >> tucker: thank you. mark steyn has been watching oprah too, thinking about her running for president. he joins us next. ♪ ree. and i don't share it with mom! right, mom? righttt. safe driving bonus checks. only from allstate. switching to allstate is worth it.
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>> tucker: for months, and oprah winfrey presidential run was just idle speculation. now it feels almost inevitable thanks to donald trump, the age of the celebrities politician may be upon us and stay here. mark steyn is an author and columnist and he joins us tonight. i want to be clear at the outset and on the record that i am not in any way criticizing oprah. i think it's a federal crime, and i pledge never to criticize oprah in any way. so i'm not doing that now. but i'm wondering what you made of the reaction to oprah winfrey last night were you had people, even republicans, purportedly bill kristol jumping in and saying run oprah. what is that? >> i think bill kristol, if you recall his tweet from a couple of months ago saying how much he supports the deep state against trump, i think we should draw from bill kristol support of oprah's candidacy that she has been an agent of the deep stent
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for many years. that's why bill kristol supports her. >> tucker: it wouldn't surprise me given the control she seems to have over people's minds. i think we're both assuming that if she ran the democratic primary she would get the nomination, right? >> absolutely. look, you have to figure out -- and wendy acknowledged this in a certain sense. if you are the democrat you want to drag bill de blasio or elizabeth warren or bernie over the finish line, or do you just want to cut to the chase and go with oprah? they are betting that if it's trump versus oprah, he's not going to be able to do to her what he did to jeff and hillary. and in a sense, that's valid. she was by far the least idiotic person at that award ceremony last night. she was crafty and cunning in the way she tied her personal story to this #metoo business. which i think is actually one of the interesting things about it.
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to me, that ceremony was ludicrous. i felt for rose mcgowan and rosanna arquette and mira sorvino as i felt for the girls in england that i spoke to who have been sexually abused by these muslim grooming gangs and then watched as all these opportunist activists and politicians turned the scandal into a way to advance themselves up the greasy poll, and the victims were ignored. and that's exactly what happened last night. mira and rosanna and rose mcgowan didn't get any invites to the golden globes. if all these ridiculous a listers like meryl streep came along and set i'm going to show how much i support defenseless women by only wearing black. i've ordered my couturier to dress me like audrey hepburn and breakfast at tiffany's. that will show them. and it was completely preposterous. and oprah actually -- oprah, who
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was more opportunist than any of them, actually sees that issue and appropriated it to herself, which i would be annoyed about if i were mira sorvino, but she did it at a skill level that is way beyond nicole kidman or meryl streep or any of those other ladies. >> tucker: she's talented, there's no question about it. and she certainly is a brilliant communicator. someone said to me though recently, someone who shall remain nameless because he doesn't want to be charged with a crime either, i respect oprah, but sometimes there is -- this man said to me i feel like she doesn't like me. she doesn't like me. to think a lot of people feel that way? what percentage of the population feels like oprah is on their side? >> the question is whether oprah is on our side. she gave a rather serious interview, i think it was to the bbc a couple of years ago, where she said that it really just old white people need to die. and this is where it gets to
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wendy's thing about how she heals us all and she brings us all together. i'm not actually sure at this stage that talking about sidney poitier and rosa parks does do that. i'm not sure it's anything to do with the challenges we face today, not just because america has elected a black president and the golden globes is full of famous and prominent black celebrities, and indeed a biracial american woman is about to marry into the royal family and a couple of months. it's not just that her parents didn't have a thing about race, but her majesty the queen, who has to approve every moyle mike royal marriage doesn't either. there's something slightly weird in her attempt, which was effective with the crowd, and trying to connect all these kind of traditional racial tropes to the #metoo thing. let's not forget, by the way, that all these feel-good movies
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she has made like the butler that were distributed by harvey weinstein, harvey weinstein wanted a piece of all of those affirmative action feel-good booster movies because it was a great way to get chicks, liberal chicks to go up to your hotel room. there were all kinds of contradictions at play in the path she's trying to negotiate there. >> tucker: everything is mark obligated than it looks. mark steyn, thank you for being a sure but that twisted path. >> we all need more healing, it's more complicated than it looks, tucker. >> tucker: i'm for healing. thank you, mark. some of apples on investors are terrified by how addictive that company's products are, especially to children, and they are not alone. up next, a big and very well-known tech investor says he now regrets helping create google and facebook. stay tuned for that. ♪ you loved brad.
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♪ >> tucker: some of silicon valley's biggest investors are being asked tough questions about the world they helped create. over the weekend, two major investors in apple, the california state teachers tyrant system sent a letter to apple urging the company to do more to fight smartphone addiction among young people. an early investor in both facebook and google, which is a great thing financially, but now he says he regrets some of what those companies have become. roger joins us tonight, thanks for coming on. >> my pleasure, tucker. >> tucker: it's kind of amazing to even begin this conversation with you considering you so famously made great bets on both those companies. now you are concerned about what they are doing. explain your concern. >> it's really simple. the problem that we have here is that many of us, and i count myself among the number, and view technology is one of those things that was only goodness.
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there really was no downside to it. with the longest time, that was true. now because smartphones are available 18 hours a day and because companies like facebook and google have personalized 2 billion individual channels so each of us has their own programming all the time, addiction is actually an inevitable result of their advertising business models. it's not something we saw. i personally look back on this and i'm kicking myself for not having seen it. at the same time, i committed myself full-time with my partners to try to start a national conversation about what is the appropriate role of technology? what is the best way to protect our children? and i'm delighted to see that there are large institutional investors who are their market power to try to call attention both to the issue and to provoke companies to do the right thing. >> tucker: i assume you still live out in the peninsula with the bay area, how unpopular are you? this is the most countercultural thing you could do i would
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think. >> it's a really interesting thing because i think you are right. for the longest time, silicon valley didn't want to believe there was a problem. everybody likes disruption because it's easy. what they don't want is to bear the consequences of having done that. now that they are being called to task, what's really cool, i wrote this last weekend that brought ceos to me to start conversations for the first time. i'm not worried about popularity. that's not what this is about. i'm really worried about our children, and worried about the country, i'm worried about democracy. i'm worried about what goes on in the world. i just think that we don't want to be made more lonely. we don't want to be made more sad, we don't want to be made more unsuccessful. and wish for sure don't want that to happen to our kids. >> tucker: what you think the right way -- you are saying this is a very informed, unusually informed person on this questiot way to manage your children's use of these devices? >> i think the really important thing for every parent to
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understand is that there are a lot of bad things that can happen. we think about product like youtube kids. we think about product like snapchat. these are products, the business model is designed about the notion of addiction in kids. they are not equipped to deal with it. parents need to restrict usage of this products. one of the sad things, one of the things that makes me angry is that executives out in the valley generally restrict their kids usage of the product that they are encouraging everyone else to use. i think the first thing to do is you have to explain to the kids, there's a lot of bad stuff going on here and it's not your fault. i wish we had caught this before it had become an epidemic problem. >> tucker: everything you have said makes sense, it seems obvious. for our viewers who don't know what you are, i would encourage them to google you because they will see that coming from you this is profound. you really are right in the middle. >> this was a huge change for me. i'm proud of -- this is my
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♪ >> tucker: french cities remain inundated with thousands of migrants were living on the streets. a november speech in burkina faso, the capital, the french president explain why many of them much go. "i can't tell my middle classes who work, pay taxes, that it's
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great we are going to welcome everybody into the country. that's ridiculous, was going to pay for that? you will just fuel racism and xenophobia. that just doesn't work." katie hopkins is with rebel media and she joins us tonight. katie, that was the president of france, the historic rival to your island kingdom. can you imagine an english leader -- a political figure in the u.k. saying something like that out loud? >> no, not at all. i think he hopefully is going to come back really strong on migration. i hope he is going to up the number of asylum-seekers, rejected asylum-seekers. i think they have written these letters saying they're overwhelmed by migrants, they are looking for fast action. and they are also looking for the rest of friends to share the problem. at the moment it's very much around the periphery of france
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around the edge of france. i think what they are saying is we need everyone else to take some of the share and bear the load. but he is talking tough on migration, and you can see why, because merkel hasn't been tough enough and she's just had her worst bowling in 70 years. it pleases me to no end because i believe the woman is dead behind the eyes. >> tucker: i agree completely. it seems so odd to have the president of france speaking like this, far tougher on migration than the prime minister of the u.k. >> absolutely. i think theresa may has been nothing but a disappointment to so many of us because she seems to be a massive appeaser. the more that we get attacked, the more that we are threatened by the people she welcomed to our country, the more we seem to pander to them, and that's crazy to hear him coming back really strong is a very positive thing. there are other people coming
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out strong as well with the italian elections coming up on march 4th. it looks like they will go center right, right wing and of course the eastern europeans are rising up as well and they are saying no more migrants. we've got poland, hungary, others all saying no, we won't take your quotas. we aren't taking anymore people and we are rejecting the migrants from our country. and i think that gives us some indication that the people are now saying we don't want these people anymore. we've just seen a report out in germany but since that 90% of violent crime, an uptick in violent crime, 90% is committed by migrants. and there are so many of us that are saying we knew this all along. we did try to tell you when we said back in 2015, stop the boat. we said that for good reason. i never understand that just because we are doing better than another country you just invite yourself over. as if my mother in law, for example, likes to come over for sunday roast.
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